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[Image description: a series of tweets. The first is from Victoria Holmes, @spyturtle96, timestamped 3:06 PM, 04 May 22, with text as follows:

"Adoptees have been saying non-stop for months if not years they're getting ready for another baby scoop era and no one listened to us. And now "domestic supply of infants" is in a draft and people still won't listen to us."

It is tagged "#adopteevoices".

The next two are from Kim Penn, @kim_penn The first is timestamped 10:08 PM, 02 May 22 and contains the following text:

"I'm a very small Twitter voice, but I am begging my non-adoptee followers to educate yourself about what adoption is, what it does, and how evil and corrupt the adoption industry was and is. Listen to #adopteevoices. And then get your asses in the fight with us to end the system."

The second is timestamped 9:58 AM, 03 May 22, and contains the following text:

"I promise you, adoption is absolutely NOT the win/win, fucking fairy tale, happy ending you've been led to believe. For every #adoptee, our story begins with loss. That's our baseline. Any "happy ending" without acknowledging that is empty and an illusion."

It is tagged "#adopteevoices".

The final three are a Twitter thread from Laney (followed by three Chinese characters), @Lane_Xue, timestamped 8:55 PM, 03 May 22. The first contains text as follows:

"My parents faced reproductive, economic, social, & political injustice. I was relinquished because they could not keep me & I'm an adoptee. I am not a fucking (chess pawn emoji). Do not use my family separation to justify your desire to control others reproductive health care."

The second contains text as follows:

"Abortion is a reproductive decision.

Adoption is a parenting decision often made by poor, young, economically disenfranchised people not given the resources or support to raise their children.

Do not conflate the 2 to justify feeding the adoption industries demand for (baby's face emoji)."

The third contains text as follows:

"Do not fucking ask adoptees if they'd rather have been aborted. Adoptees are already 4x more likely to attempt suicide than non-adopted people.

The reason someone needs an abortion is none of your business."

All three are tagged "#adopteevoices".

After the final tweet there is a link to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov with the beginning of a title, "Risk of Suicide Attemptin Adopted and Nonadpoted Off…"

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Good news that we deserve 😌

bagheadautist

for people who can’t watch the video: THE AMYGDALA CHANGES TRADITIONALLY FOUND IN MOTHERS SHOW UP IN ALL PRIMARY CAREGIVERS REGARDLESS OF SEX

Changes in this part of the brain were previously used to previously used to argue that women are the ideal primary caretakers of children in all cases. And apparently, it’s false. The reason they found these changes in women was that women were already the primary caretaker in almost all cases, not because there’s something inherent to women that makes them better parents.

this is big news for SAHF and single dads!

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This is also big news for adoptive parents and queer couples! Many people try to argue that adoptive parents aren't real parents because of biology and blah blah blah. Bigots will also argue this case against queer people. So, to all my traditionalists: it's not science! It's bigotry and sexist!

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hey help out my friend @lily28s fund her new modest wardrobe!

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reblogging with link!

My name is Lily. I’m an 18 year old freshman in college, a Chinese adoptee, and a Musli… Lily Sticha needs your support for Help Me get a Ne

Any plans for the continuation of this blog. Seems to be sleeping, as also the FAQ is still not updated for the new domain. Perhaps handing it off to someone else to handle as well could help. This blog seemed like it had the potential to have a very good userbase, focused on adoptees, and not so much on the political aspects. Or idk, there hasn't been any new content for awhile, so not sure if the whole userbase is sleeping too?

To be honest, I’ve been thinking of opening applications for admins. I can’t say much as to the adoption community on tumblr as a whole, only that it became rather toxic the time I left it. If you message me off anon, we can talk more.

kikyozoldyck

hot take: excusing adopted sibling incest in pop culture because the characters aren’t “actually related” is problematic as hell because it perpetuates the idea that adopted kids aren’t part of the families that they’ve been adopted into

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Gay dad Adam Rippon talking about his two Chinese-American sons, Nathan Chen and Vincent Zhou, at the 2018 US National Championships and 2018 Winter Olympic Games

#im here?

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Summer is a jovial and outgoing teen in foster care who hopes to find a safe and loving permanent family. She has a love for the performing arts and is on her high school’s dance guard team. So we took her to visit ...

“Summer is a jovial and outgoing teen in foster care who hopes to find a safe and loving permanent family. She has a love for the performing arts and is on her high school’s dance guard team.

Summer is a connoisseur of the arts and is attending a school with a strong arts program. Her hope is to pursue education and a career in dance. Summer is also interested in, as shown through her charisma to consider career option #2, being a motivational speaker to help empower others.”

Check out the full story and video here

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Los Angeles area folks, please share with anyone who might be interested!

#reblog

http://weareasianadoptees.tumblr.com/

i think i did it.

http://weareasianadoptees.tumblr.com/

and when you go to the old url, you get told to go here.

Is this blog still active? It needs to be updated more.

I don’t wanna work on the blog until I figure out how to change the url but keep the content but make sure the old url tells you where to go

and at the same time i don’t know how that works and it’s daunting to look up. but I will try tonight.

-k

There's much I could say, but for now I will just suggest these links to help my fellow adoptees. It may be obvious to some to check wikipeida, others not. VERY IMPORTANT: the page on korean adoptees was updated A LOT last winter. Wikipedia is one of the most used sites. Please help to keep this information up to date and accurage for fellow adoptees! IT WONT LET ME POST THE LINKS, how can I put post the links? Or i will try in the comments.

Thank you! Please post the links in the comments!!!! Please!!!!!!

would you still be asian if you were born in Eurasia or Kazakstan?

I believe so. Isn’t Kazakhstan and its surround nations also called ‘Central Asia’?

I'm the anon from before who was asking about names, and I ended up finding the characters for it on my Chinese passport, as well as the meaning/pronunciation from wiktionary and a friend. Thanks for your help though!

yay! nice!

hi, i was wondering if any followers are attending san diego adopteen? it's my first time and i'm super excited but i'm a little worried about being one of the older attendees. i would love to get to know anyone beforehand!

oh dear. I think this ask is from three years ago. Please do comment if you are interested in similar events in San Diego for @beijingshibian

This is a question I have been asking to myself for a while now. Is it ok that I am happy with my family here? I am a Chinese adoptee in the Sichuan province and sometimes when I talk about myth parents, I feel like I am hurting my biological parents. Has anyone ever felt this way? And has anyone ever felt that they need to be perfect to prove their birth parents wrong about giving them up? I need to know if this is something all adoptees go through or not. Thank you.

Of course! You have every right to be happy! Adoption is done with the hope of creating a happy family for all involved, especially us.

I totally get what you’re saying with needing to prove yourself to your birth parents. It is something I still struggle with. If anyone else feels this way, too, please chime in.

This may sound callous, but your birth parents haven’t done much since you were put in an orphanage. Perhaps they think about you, perhaps they don’t. Perhaps they are no longer alive. You can spend a lifetime thinking of the possibilities. Sometimes it is comforting, sometimes not. What matters is that you are happy now. Which it seems you are!

I was adopted from China by one white parent and one second generation Chinese American. Am I first gen or second gen?

I really have no idea here. First and a half gen? Sorry. I wish I could be of better help.

are you still active?

I am now!

i've been looking so long for a blog like this and although its really sad that you arent very active anymore i am forever grateful that you made this. rn im going through your archive and it warms my heart <3

awewatia,

I am back. However, please note that I will be changing the blog title to weareasianadoptees once I can figure out how...

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